A lecture series program was inaugurated in 1996. This program supports two to three lectures a year on topics of Modern Greek literature, history and culture. Upcoming lectures are listed on our home page.

2007

Vassilis Lambropoulos (University of Michigan) 27 February 2007, "Greek American Accents"; 1 March 2007, "Humanism between Hubris and Heroism

Conference: 20 April 2007, Balkan Literature of Dissent

2006

Franklin L. Hess (University of Iowa) 9 March 2006, "Violence, Narrative and the Critique of the Enlightenment in the Films of Theodoros Angelopoulos and Emir Kusturica"

Vassilis Colonas (University of Thessaly) 20 April 2006, "Thessaloniki Before And After The Fire of 1917"; 22 April 2006, "Urban Space in Cavafy's Poetry"

Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University) 27 April 2006, "Does Greek Speak the Language of World Literature?"

Dr. Maria Kaliambou (Princeton University) 29 November 2006, "Greek Popular Books: The Dialogue between Oral and Written Literature"

2005

Panos Karnezis 6 April 2005, "An evening with Panos Karnezis: a reading from his novel The Maze"

Peter Bien (Brown University) 22 March 2005, "Kazantzakis's Religious Philosophy"

Georges Prevelakis (Tufts University) 25 February 2005, "Diaspora and Nation-State: A Greek-Jewish Comparison"

2004

Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University) 8 November 2004, "Occupation, Violence, and Civil War in Greece: A Micro-Perspective"

Michael Paschalis (University of Crete) 21 October 2004, "The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott"

Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston University) 10 March 2004, "From Secularism to Pluralism in Turkey: Possibilities for the Sustainability of the Greek Orthodox Minority"

Yorgos Kalogeras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program)

a) 6 April 2004, "Contact Zones and Transition Statements: The Literary Cycles of Greek American Literature"
b) 7 April 2004, "Hellenic Diaspora, Greek Immigrants and Americans of Hellenic Descent: Understanding Turn-of -the-Century Greek Immigration to the U.S.A."
c) 8 April 2004, "Translating Ethnicity from Fiction to Film: Albert Isaac Bezzerides"

Eleni Bastea (The University of New Mexico) 14 April 2004, "Oh, The figs of Smyrna" Memories of the Garden in the Accounts of the Greek Orthodox Refugees from Anatolia

Michalis Paschalis (Department of Philology, University of Crete, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program) 21 October 2004, "The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott"

Stathis Kalyvas (Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University) 8 November, "Occupation, Violence, and Civil War in Greece: A Micro-Perspective"

2003

The Honorable Dimitri Avramopoulos (Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program) April 2003, "Cities and International Diplomacy"

Eri Stavropoulou (University of Athens) October 2003, "The Image of America in 19th century Greek literature: Between Utopia and the Exotic"

Elias Bantekas (Westminster University) November 2003, "International Criminal Justice and the Reconstruction of the Balkans"

2002

David Connolly (Visiting Fellow in Modern Greek Studies, St. Cross College, Oxford) December 2001, "The Poetry of Song: Popular Musical Settings of Modern Greek Poetry"

Gonda Van Steen (University of Arizona-Tuscon) November 2001, "Power play and tyrannicide in stage revivals of Aeschylus' Oresteia under the Greek military dictatorship, 1967-1974"

Georgios Antoniou (Research Student, European University Institute, Florence, Italy) October 2001, "Who belongs to the Nation: In search of the enemy in the Greek forties"

Peter Mackridge (St. Cross College, Oxford, Senior Visiting Fellow, Onassis Foundation, USA) September 2002, "National tradition as national difference in Modern Greek culture"

Peter Mackridge (St. Cross College, Oxford), April, "Diglossia and the Separation of Discourses in Greek Culture."

Workshop, April 25-26: "Western Visions and the Construction of Identities in Southeast Europe" a workshop on the Late Ottoman Empire and the Balkans. [Workshop details]

2000

Conference: 5-6 May 2000, "Memory, Identity, Geopolitics: A Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean." [Conference details]

Roderick Beaton (King's College, London), April, "The Exemplary Modernism of George Seferis."

Mark Mazower (Birkbeck College, University of London, and Princeton University), March, "Before Nationalism: Religion in the Balkans, 1500-1800"

Thodoros Couloubis (Senior Visiting Fellow, Onassis Foundation, USA), November, "The Metamorphosis of Greece: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions"

1999

Dimitris L. Avramopoulos, Mayor of Athens, November, "The Role of Cities in the Third Millennium."

Dora Bakoyannis, Member of the Greek Parliament, November, "The Balkans: Powder Keg or Deposit of Errors?" Inaugural Lecture of the Watson Institute for International Studies' Director's Seminar Series: Self-Determination in International Politics.

Polimeris Voglis (Princeton University), December, "The State in a State of Emergency: Greece in Civil War."

1998

Socrates Petmezas (Department of History, University of Crete, Rethymnon), February, "The Mutation of the Greek Intellectual Scene in the 1840s and 1850s: From Constitutional to Romantic Nationalism."

David Ricks (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College London), April, "Kavafy's Alexandrianism and its English Language Inheritors."

Philip Carabott (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College London), April, "Minorities and the State: The Case of the Slavo-Macedonians in Inter-War Greece."

Colloquium: November, "Greeks and their Topoi: 18th-20th Century Diasporas." [Workshop details]

1997

Patricia Storace (New York City), April: Dinner with Persephone Book Reading.

Platon Mavromoustakos (Department of Theatre Studies, National University of Athens), April: "Ancient Greek Drama on Modern Greek Stage."

John Theofanis Papadimitriou (Department of Classics, National University of Athens), November: "The Emergence of a Seminal Anti-Hero: From Aesop to the Picaresque Novel and Beyond."

Maria Todorova (Department of History, University of Florida), December: "Do Identities Exist and Who Has Them? Some Reflections on Balkan Identities."

1996

Anna Stavrakopoulou (Harvard University), November: "The Life and Times of Popular Performing Artists: Oral Autobiographies of Karaghiozis."

For more information contact: Modern_Greek@brown.edu